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Originally Posted by vicphoenix13
Harper made a huge political blunder by acting like he has a majority government. You don't go around saying that you intend to remove funding for political parties when your in a minority government. That just made the Liberals and NDP hungry to overthrow Harper. Didn't he realize that those parties were already behind financially? What Harper should have done is work to develop a consensus with the Liberals for a couple years. Then, he might have been able to win over enough support for a majority in a 2010 election.
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Actually you do. It's the whole ridiculous political posturing that they always do. One party comes out with some policy that the others will absolutly hate. The other parties freak out, and yell about how ridiculous it is. First party softens a bit, making a big show of their conscessions, other parties still complain, but lighten up, whole thing goes back and forth with everyone preening like peacocks, and they meet somewhere in the middle, not far from where they would have started if they didn't try to put on such a show. It's kind of like contract talks for arbitration in hockey. Each side starts with totally ridiculous and unreasonable numbers, and in the end they agree to something barely off from what they both wanted. It ends up looking over the top, but it's how things have always been done. This time however, when the conservatives made the big show about their conscessions, the liberals and NDP decided they weren't done preening, and this whole mess started. The biggest thing that went wrong here was the weakness in Dion as a leader allowed him to get swept away in his fantasies of actually being accepted as a political leader, which hinged on being PM. He was given the opportunity and he grabbed it, not caring how much he had to conceed to do so.